Joe Biden takes swipe at Amazon over union fight

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In a statement aimed at Amazon, US President Joe Biden has warned companies against intimidating staff considering joining a labour union.

Mr Biden said "the choice to join a union should be up to the workers - full stop".

His remarks come in the middle of a historic vote in Alabama, where Amazon warehouse workers are deciding whether to join a union.

It is the first such vote Amazon has faced in the US since 2014.

It follows months of criticism of the e-commerce giant for falling short of coronavirus safety precautions, while making high demands on workers during the pandemic, when its business has boomed.

In his video remarks, Mr Biden did not explicitly back the union effort, nor did he mention Amazon by name. However, he said the White House was committed to the right to collectively organise.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56245014

 

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14 hours ago, CanAm1980 said:

In a statement aimed at Amazon, US President Joe Biden has warned companies against intimidating staff considering joining a labour union.

Mr Biden said "the choice to join a union should be up to the workers - full stop".

His remarks come in the middle of a historic vote in Alabama, where Amazon warehouse workers are deciding whether to join a union.

It is the first such vote Amazon has faced in the US since 2014.

It follows months of criticism of the e-commerce giant for falling short of coronavirus safety precautions, while making high demands on workers during the pandemic, when its business has boomed.

In his video remarks, Mr Biden did not explicitly back the union effort, nor did he mention Amazon by name. However, he said the White House was committed to the right to collectively organise.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56245014

 

To me, the President should not be getting involved in this.  The workers will vote, and decide what they decide, and in the end, if they create a union, it is still a right to work state. 

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21 hours ago, CanAm1980 said:

In a statement aimed at Amazon, US President Joe Biden has warned companies against intimidating staff considering joining a labour union.

Mr Biden said "the choice to join a union should be up to the workers - full stop".

His remarks come in the middle of a historic vote in Alabama, where Amazon warehouse workers are deciding whether to join a union.

It is the first such vote Amazon has faced in the US since 2014.

It follows months of criticism of the e-commerce giant for falling short of coronavirus safety precautions, while making high demands on workers during the pandemic, when its business has boomed.

In his video remarks, Mr Biden did not explicitly back the union effort, nor did he mention Amazon by name. However, he said the White House was committed to the right to collectively organise.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56245014

 

in other words he gave some generic plain vanilla statement to give lip service to the union with out drawing the ire of Bezos  and his loyal supporters at the WAPO.

 

I remember when we had a Prez who wasn't scared of either

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2 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

in other words he gave some generic plain vanilla statement to give lip service to the union with out drawing the ire of Bezos  and his loyal supporters at the WAPO.

 

I remember when we had a Prez who wasn't scared of either

Sadly, Obama was constrained by term limits.

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10 hours ago, Dashinka said:

To me, the President should not be getting involved in this.  The workers will vote, and decide what they decide, and in the end, if they create a union, it is still a right to work state. 

Why not, breaching the National Labor Relations Act is a federal offense? You only really see unions get in the news when they become too powerful for their, or the public good (Read Teachers and Police Unions). I don't understand why liberals seem to think that Bezos supports them in any shape or form. Just because he is the enemy of Trump doesn't automatically make him anything other than what he is, a gluttonous profiteer who would stab his own mother if it would increase his revenues.

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57 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

Obama was constrained by term limits.

??!  He's in his third term now.

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9 hours ago, Jericho said:

Why not, breaching the National Labor Relations Act is a federal offense? You only really see unions get in the news when they become too powerful for their, or the public good (Read Teachers and Police Unions). I don't understand why liberals seem to think that Bezos supports them in any shape or form. Just because he is the enemy of Trump doesn't automatically make him anything other than what he is, a gluttonous profiteer who would stab his own mother if it would increase his revenues.

Actually, the UAW has been in the news quite a bit as of late, and they have become much less powerful at least nationally, and police unions really have little power at least when it comes to work stoppages (read strikes).  I really don't know what the politics of Bezos is, but if he is anything like some of the other tech CEOs/billionaires, he probably leans Left at least publicly.  The cancel culture that comes from the Dems/Left and their desire to limit free political speech is scary to anyone that actually wants to succeed in business.

9 hours ago, CanAm1980 said:

Sadly, Obama was constrained by term limits.

Thank God.